Decentralization and the social economics of development : lessons from Kenya /

This book focuses on the experience of decentralization in rural Kenya and is presented in two parts under the following themes: (i) successes and failures of decentralization (chapters 2-6); and (ii) socioeconomic and institutional preconditions for successful decentralization (chapters 7-10). The...

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Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
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505 0 # |a Decentralization and the social economics of development : an overview of concepts and evidence from Kenya / C.B. Barrett, A.G. Mude and J.M. Omiti -- A qualitative analysis of success and failure factors of agricultural cooperatives in central Kenya / J.K. Nyoro and I.K. Ngugi -- Institutional incompatibility and deregulation : explaining the dismal performance of Kenya's coffee cooperatives / A.G. Mude -- Decentralization, community-based organizations and access to agricultural extension services in eastern Kenya / G.L. Mugunieri and J.M. Omiti -- Access to and willingness to pay for, agricultural extension in western Kenya / E. Nambiro and J.M. Omiti -- Decentralization of pastoral resources management and its effects on environmental degradation and poverty : experience from northern Kenya / K. Munyao and C.B. Barrett -- Linkages between community, environmental, and conflict management : experiences from northern Kenya / G.O. Haro, G.J. Doyo and J.G. McPeak -- The unfulfilled promise of microfinance in Kenya : the KDA experience / S.M. Osterloh and C.B. Barrett -- The effects of farmer community group participation on rural livelihood in Kenya / D.M. Amudavi -- On economic transfers through social networks in Kenya's smallholder sector / H. Hogset. 
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520 3 # |a This book focuses on the experience of decentralization in rural Kenya and is presented in two parts under the following themes: (i) successes and failures of decentralization (chapters 2-6); and (ii) socioeconomic and institutional preconditions for successful decentralization (chapters 7-10). The text will be of interest to researchers and students in social sciences and development studies, and to policy makers in international aid agencies, non-governmental development organizations and government ministries. A subject index is included. 
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